Posted in IT, ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, network, ngo, ong, pace, peace, resource, risorse, salute, security, sustainability, technology, tagged agassi, auto, automobili, battery, better place, car, cars, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, electric car, energia, energy, exchangeable battery, network, nissan, oil, renault, renewable, renewable energy, renewable fuels, shai agassi, sustainability, sustainable energy, transport, transportation, zero emission on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.
Better Place network will provide [...]
Posted in international organization, lobby, ngo, ong, pace, peace, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, tagged civil liberties, democracy, democrazia, diritti, diritti politici, diritti umani, freedom, freedom house, human rights, index of freedom, indice di libertà, libertà, libertà civili, libertie, map of freedom, politica, political rights, politics, rights on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Map of freedom according to Freedom House
Since 1972 Freedom House publishes an annual report, Freedom in the World, on the degree of democratic freedoms in nations and significant disputed territories around the world, by which it seeks to assess the current state of civil and political rights on a scale from 1 (most free) to [...]
Posted in cooperation, lobby, media, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, society, società, sustainability, tagged batory, central european, ceu, charities, charity, civil society, communism, democracy, democrazia, diritti umani, eastern europe, est, europa, filantropia, fondazione, fondi, foundation, funding, george soros, human rights, independent media, movements, movimenti, no profit, open society, open society institute, OSI, partecipazione, participation, reform, revolution, riforme, rivoluzioni colorate, rivouluzioni, soros, soviet union, studenti, students, sviluppo, transition, transizione, università, university on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At [...]
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, internet, ngo, ong, people, resource, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged aiuto, beneficienza, capital, connect people, cooperation, cooperazione, denaro, developing countries, developing world, donate, donations, donazioni, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneur, enterpreneurs, field partners, finanziatori, fund, help, imprenditori, investimento, istituti di microcredito, kiva, lend, lender, lending, loan, loans, mcrocredito, micro-lending, microcredito, microfinance, microfinance istitutions, microfunds, money, ngo, no profit, ong, paesi in via di sviluppo, partnerships, paypal, people, piccola impresa, piccoli imprenditori, poverty, prestare, prestito, small business, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo sostenibile on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses. It is a 501(c) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and [...]
Posted in media, ngo, ong, society, tagged article, competition, contest, development, freelance, guardian, journal, journalism, media, poverty, writers, writing on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have the ability to be a top-notch journalist? Could you write the sort of articles the Guardian would be happy to publish? Here is the chance for your work to be published alongside some of the best journalism in the UK.
The Guardian, in partnership with eight UK-based international non-government organisations (NGOs), wants to [...]
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, ngo, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, salute, science, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged brundtland, climate change, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, oil depletion, riciclo, rinnovamento, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability discourse is discussion of how to make human economic systems last longer and have less impact on ecological systems, and particularly relates to concern over major global problems relating to climate change and oil depletion.
One of the first and most oft-cited definitions of sustainability, and almost certainly the one that [...]
